i found a place on thursday after not looking particularly hard for two days. i first went to see friends and unloaded all the gifts i brought with me. the place i have is in the centre again and not in the little town i think i told you about. i have a one bedroom apartment that is quite big for oaxaca with a living room, large bathroom, kitchen and service patio. that means i have a place to wash our clothes and hang them to dry and oscar has a place to run around.
as always here i am always running out of time to do everything that i plan to do in a day. today we woke up early to go out to a pueblo that has a sunday market that is fantastic. we ate avena (a couple of spoonfuls of oats in a mug with boiling water poured over and a little sugar) and then headed out. once there we found plenty to snack on while i bought our groceries. later we went to bardo and mica's house for comida, i bought barbacoa which is a enchilada broth with goat. you sprinkle cabbage and cilantro over it all with lime and more salsa and eat it with tortillas. god it's good. oscar played with angeles and her cousins and had a blast/got overly tired and cranky.
i headed up to a colonia north of the centre. there's an awesome restaurant up there that only cooks with corn grown in oaxaca and without genetic modification. they are members of the slow food movement and are enthusiastically trying to push food security in oaxaca. they are looking for a gringa mesera to serve food a few mornings each week and do a little administrative work as they are thinkin gof franchising. which here in mexico means opening another restaurant elsewhere in the city. i will learn some awesome recipes and hear about food security here.
so mari who has nisaa who's a little younger than oscar will take him on the mornings that i work so that they can play together. he's amuch better age to be here with because he has more patience and better social skills, i suppose that it helps that all is not brand new. but he has certainly calmed down, or matured or something. hardly any problem with angeles, normal conflict but not unpleasant and bardo said that he was really impressed with oscar's curiosity. he and mika then talked about how simaler he is to pavel at that age.
otherwise i have been running silly errands trying to get the apartment together. laundry soap, dish soap, broom, mop, groceries, bank, et cetera. fun fun.





